DWCG is looking for a C-ID community member who loves chickens and the Danny Woo Community Garden!

The DWCG is home to 16 chickens, almost all different breeds. While gardeners feed and water the chickens daily in exchange for eggs, the chicken intern manages the coop, communicates with the gardener chicken volunteers, and is the eyes and ears of our feathered friends for their health and happiness.

This is a weekly and on-going commitment. We prefer that the chicken intern lives relatively close by, speaks English and Chinese, and has prior experience with chickens and gardening.

Contact the DWCG manager at: or call 206-624-1802 x 28.  

 Despite Seattle's temperamental weather (rain, sun, and snow all within the hour?!) the Danny Woo Community Garden is ready to welcome children and youth for spring and summer programming! Our 1.5 acre community garden features a dedicated children's garden within the larger elder community garden, a chicken coop, over 60 fruit trees, and an outdoor kitchen. There is no cost for tours, however donations are welcome and will directly benefit our garden.

If you have a group of 5-20 children or youth (ages 4 years to 18 years) who want to steward the earth, explore gardening through a social justice lens, and maybe even cook a little, then the Danny Woo Children's Garden is just the place for you! We are happy to tailor field trips to the needs of your group. Common foci of our programming include:

• Reading & literacy in the garden
• Seed to table cooking activities
• Soil exploration
• Plant parts
• Food justice 101

If you're ready to schedule your tour today, contact us using the form below. Make sure to include your organization's name, ideal tour date and time, size of your group, and age range of your children/youth. We'll get back to you within a week of receipt.
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Last month, the garden welcomed Megan, our new Volunteer Coordinator, to the Danny Woo team! Megan joins us through the Jesuit Volunteer Corps program--a division of AmeriCorps--and has taken on volunteer management for the garden, while also supporting several other community based programs of InterIm CDA.

Megan is a first time Seattleite who relocated from Grand Rapids, MI. She recently graduated from Aquinas College with a bachelor's degree in Sustainable Business. Megan is settling in to the PNW lifestyle quite well by taping into her love of the outdoors, kayaking, and biking. She's having a great time exploring Seattle's vibrant food scene and our extensive network of parks.

What excites Megan most about her new role at InterIm CDA is the opportunity to dive deep into C-ID's history and to be able to work alongside our elder gardeners. She's particularly eager to learn more about our gardeners' traditional growing methods!

Please join us in welcoming Megan to the Danny Woo Community Garden! If you'd like to connect with Megan about volunteer opportunities drop her an e-mail at [email protected]
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Last Thursday, we celebrated 41 years of food justice at the Danny Woo Community Garden at our first annual CULTIVATE happy hour benefit. We had an absolute blast turning the garden's outdoor kitchen into a bumpin' party spot, complete with music, fresh flowers from Kamayan Farm, wine, small bites, and forty guests!

The focus of the evening was to celebrate the contributions communities of color have and continue to make to the garden's and Seattle's wider food justice movement. We were lucky enough to feature small bites from Chef Tarik, Food and Sh*t, and Hood Famous Bakeshop, while also creating our own bite using garden grown tomatoes, Essential Baking Co. bread, Beecher's cheese, and That Brown Girl Cooks' hummus!  Guests were able to wash these bites down with local wine, DRY Soda, and strawberry water using fruit from the garden.

Check out the photos from the evening! We are so grateful to all those who supported the garden last Thursday and can't wait to see you and more of the community at next year's bigger and better CULTIVATE happy hour!

All photos courtesy of Brenda Luu

You can still support our work in food and environmental justice through a donation designated to the Danny Woo Community Garden via InterIm CDA's donation page. You can also become a ​Friend of the Danny Woo Community Garden to receive updates on future events!

      Ms. Lai is a relatively new member of the Danny Woo Community Garden, with just one year under her belt as one of our elder gardeners. But don't underestimate her growing skills, Ms. Lai was a career farmer in her home country of Hong Kong.
       After moving to Seattle in 1993, she fell very homesick for her friends and family back in Hong Kong. She took whatever opportunity she could to visit home and stay connected to her roots. Through the years however, she was able to build a community within Chinatown/International District and noticed many of her new friends were growing at the Danny Woo Community Garden. In 2015, she joined them as one of our gardeners. Most recently, she was delighted to relocate to a plot that neighbors one of her closest friends of over 20 years. Ms. Lai treats gardening as her daily form of exercise. She loves planting potatoes, lettuce, and squash.

This week's story was authored by youth from ACRS's Job Readiness Program who have been working alongside our elder gardens all spring. Youth developed interview questions, conducted interviews with the elder gardeners, and translated their stories into English. This was a special project as part of the intergenerational programming in the garden.

Gee, how time flies! This summer has been a whirlwind experience for the garden as we teamed up with InterIm CDA's Wilderness Inner-city Leadership Development (WILD) Youth program to roll out a six-week food justice curriculum. This was the first year the garden developed a curriculum that allowed us to dialogue with WILD Youth to intentionally dialogue about oppression, food, and identity. Throughout the summer we explored issues of hunger, racism, homelessness, and food systems through interactive, youth-led programming.

We are so grateful to the thirteen WILD Youth for giving us the space to pilot this curriculum and learn alongside us. We hope to publish the curriculum here once we integrate youth feedback and reformat our plans into something downloadable. Stay tuned!

In the meantime, check out the wonderful highlight video produced by our intern and curriculum co-developer, An An, in addition to some of our favorite photos from the summer!

        Mr. Liu started planting at the Danny Woo Community Garden 4 years ago. Mr. Liu really enjoys gardening. As a resident of Chinatown/International District, Mr. Liu often visits the garden twice a day whenever he feels bored at home. He is happiest when he is able to harvest from his garden, especially when his beans are ready. Mr. Liu likes spring time the most because it marks the beginning of the growing season.

Mr. Liu started growing at the Danny Woo Community Garden three years ago, through the encouragement of his children. After a series of health ailments, he decided to look for a place to be more physically active in his neighborhood. Working in the garden everyday has been a important part of his journey to restoring his health. Mr. Liu is often in the garden with his wife, who loves to grow alongside him.

This week's story was authored by youth from ACRS's Job Readiness Program who have been working alongside our elder gardens all spring. Youth developed interview questions, conducted interviews with the elder gardeners, and translated their stories into English. This was a special project as part of the intergenerational programming in the garden.

Every year, thousands of volunteer hours are poured into the garden to make it the thriving community-centered space that its been for over 40 years. From garden stewardship to programmatic support, the Danny Woo Community Garden wouldn't be what it is today without volunteer love, energy, and support!

This summer we have the pleasure of working with a stellar volunteer intern who's blazing trails with our youth programs. AnAn is a graduate student in Multicultural Education who recently moved to Seattle from Taiwan. Her extensive experience with youth, great social justice analysis, and shared identities with the C-ID community has made her an invaluable asset to the Danny Woo Community Garden team.

AnAn signed on earlier this spring to develop and pilot a new food justice curriculum with InterIm CDA's WILD Youth program, which works with high school-aged folks to explore environmental justice in the C-ID and beyond. All summer, AnAn has been co-facilitating dialogues and activities with WILD Youth about oppression, food and identity, food systems, and hunger and homelessness. Her ability to connect with youth on a playful and genuine level is a joy to watch.

Beyond AnAn's youth work, she's also served as a vital bridge for our Mandarin-speaking elder gardeners. She's created a warm and welcoming environment for our gardeners and is breaking down linguistic barriers to garden materials by translating our entire website into Chinese (coming soon!). 

We are so grateful to have AnAn as part of the InterIm CDA/Danny Woo Garden family! We absolutely adore you!

It was a whirlwind weekend filled with community, good weather, and a delicious 124 pound pig! With nearly 200 people who came through over the two-day event, the garden was overflowing with love and laughter. In addition to bringing together many of our elder gardeners, the Pig Roast is a unique time for longtime community members to connect and swap stories of the garden and the neighborhood with newbies. Near and far--from just next door, to Bali and Taiwan--this annual tradition always feels more like a family reunion than anything else.

A HUMONGOUS thank you is in order to all the staff, the 30+ volunteers, and the local businesses (see list) who made this year's pig roast such a success. Thank you to Olsen Farms for providing our suckling pork year after year, to Tai Tung Restaurant for keep our piggy fresh, to International District Emergency Center (IDEC) for always watching over our community, to SCIPDA and Legacy House for supporting the Pig Roast each year, especially with DragonFest on your plate, to Seattle Tilth for keeping an eye on our waste systems, to WILD Youth for spinning the pig through the night, and to Phil Eidenberg-Noppe for your master photography skills. An extra special shout out to Bill, Marcus, Jeff, Marvin, Annie, Sue, and Dickie for the years of support and wisdom you bring to the pig roast.

And with that, we bid the 41st Annual Pig Roast farewell! We hope to see you all at number forty-two in 2017! In the meantime...stay tuned for a special fundraiser in the garden this fall!

All photo by Phil Eidenberg-Noppe.
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